hey shazza, got this done, loved this months poster although it wasnt easy, could only fit on the arrowed street sign and green roofed house, i had fun paper piecing the sign post and houses with websters pages, hope you like it.........journalling is about our house on our street not being a mansion or in a well to do suburb but its filled with love and is comfortable and thats what matters......................thanks

Well done Amanda, love your green roofed houses. The journaling is great, love the webster pages. Great work - Shazza

Well, I have always wanted to scrap this photo of my family and I finally get the the chance to do it....as you know I love to add a bit of my own art to many of my pages and this is probably the most I have ...the background papers I made myself, very influenced by the work of Shona Cole. I also drew the little house scene...I used my water colour pencils for this part, then I washed over the top of the whole background, not the houses as the water colour pencils run, with gesso...that stuff is fantastic...I have every artistic diva item, these were copied from downloadables on the net, then glued and gessoed over...all in all i am pretty happy with it...yet another great inspirational piece to work from...cheers

Mandy

This is incredible a great take on the challenge and now one of my favourites! Glad you managed all the diva points too. Google is fantastic for those little extras to add to your layouts. love the colors, the pics, everything about this shines!! you must be pleased with the end result. Impressive!! - Shazza

I hope you like my challenge layout this month, you certainly put the challenge out there but I managed all the criteria and this is now one of my very favourite layouts. Thanks Love Melxxxx

Mel, this would have to be one of my favourites as well! You've done a fabulous job and covered all the criteria as well, its sensational, I love the color scheme, there is so much to look at! well done - shazza

House Reno's & Homestead are two layouts that taketheir inspiration from the homes in the art work,St Nicholas Circle. House Reno's shows our houseafter we took on 6 months of renovations...mindyou, there are still "little things" that aren'tfinished ! Homestead is almost the completeopposite, showing my DH's childhood home way outwest, near Nyngan. It's not much more than arustic, run down shell these days. - Michelle

Well done Michelle. Both are great examples ofhouses taken from the painting. Thanks for youtwo samples this month. I love the old homestead,I bet your hubby could tell some great childhoodstories. Well done - Shazza

"Here is a before and after shot of the front of my house. It was a jungle when I bought it and I have now transformed it into a beautiful home. I used a Twiddleybitz large lampost, which I inked and glimmermisted, the little green roofed house is at the bottom of the page and my arrowed signposts are on top of the photos. I enjoyed being challenged by this one!"

I love before and afters, especially when the after is such a dramatic change. A great layout with some beautiful embellies. Well done - shazza

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

In no particular order, here is a blog roll of all the 'mucha - Reverie' entries for the month! This helps the Design Team with the judging of entries :) So hang in there, it will be a couple of days before we get back to you with all the winners !!! I will start posting Aprils inspiration very shortly.

I am so happy with the number of entries for March and especially that we had 6 new ladies give this challenge a go.......... Thankyou to everyone who entered this months challenge, we had 17 fantastic entries all up!!, which is a huge effort!! Thankyou so very much for helping to make this challenge site so unique and FANtastic!!

I hope you all enjoyed the 'Mucha - Reverie' and look forward to you all playing along again in April :) I would love to get over 20 entries next month :)........ that would really make my day!

Monday, 29 March 2010

I'm afraid this may be too late to enter--I am not sure of the time difference between the US and Australia. Just in case, here is my entry for the March Art Nouveau challenge. This is one of my favorite pictures of Temple, and I was happy to use it in a LO! I loved the soft colors of the inspiration piece which I tried to incorporate here but those deep colors filtered in anyway!

Best regards,Robin

No worries Robyn, we have popped you in as we are all just about ready to vote :) You've done a great job , love your bling swirls, and cut out flowers. Well done - Shazza

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Sunday, 28 March 2010

Another excuse to do something with one of the Photos from our Betrothal Handfasting. ;O)Liked the 'frame feel of the inspo pic so I went with an Art Nouveau free clip-art frame I found online... and a background from the same place.Really liked the 'circle' on the back ground, again influenced by the inspo pic.Also tried to mimic the soft color by coloring in marker then spraying all with Glimmer Mist to soften everything out.Finally for the 'halo of flowers' I actually used a piece from the inspo pic. (circle on the left, inside the bigger circle in the background)- Sarah

This is just fabulous Sarah, you have really captured the Art Nouveau feel with your entry the frame and background pp give just the right effect. Mucha more than often used women in long flowing robes and this is clearly depicted in your pic. Great take, well done - Shazza

Entries for ARTastic's Art Nouveau challengewill close Midnight 29th March at midnight sharp!!

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Hi shaza!Glad that I managed to squeezed in an entry for March. Love the poster; the colors and all the flowery details.I am inspired by the style and the colors, so I used almost the same color scheme as in the poster.I scrapped this picture of my daughter, and added a flower halo, plus lots of flowers too! :))Hope you like it, and hope I am not too late!! Thanks Mazlina

Hi Mazlina! You have really captured the 'Reverie' feel in your entry, I love the cut out flowers on each side of the pic of your daughter, the stamping/rub ons add a really nice touch. It has come together beautifully :) Great work - Shazza

Friday, 26 March 2010

Hi Shazza,I had lots of fun with the Challenge this month Igot my inspiration from the Lady and the circles.The Photo is of Olivia when she was about10months old.Thanks for the challenge Shazza :)

Hey Jacqui! Thanks for entering the challengethis month :)I love the little cut out pic ofOlivia with her headband of flowers.she's so cute!)Love the border around your pageand the old camera and film embellie.Well done! Shazza

Entries for ARTastic's Art Nouveau challengewill close Midnight 29th March at midnight sharp!!

What a great page Annette, I'm glad you are enjoying our monthly challenges. I love the soft pastel colors, they really compliment you pic. Love the cut out over the pp looks really eyecatching. Beautiful!!- Shazza

Entries for ARTastic's Art Nouveau challengewill close Midnight 29th March at midnight sharp!!

I am very new to your site. So this has been rather a challenge - tointerpret this wonderful Art Nouveau postcard...into something Icould do....

This is a wedding photo of me taken 34 years ago....phew......& I keptfeeling like the Madonna every time I looked at what I had done!! Butslowly it came together. Loved the femininity of your postcard & triedto get that into my page as well.

Hi and Welcome, thanks for joining the challenge you've done such a great job. I think its come together beautifully. What a great cut out of you on your weddingday. Love the colors you have used, along with those gorgeous soft flowers. A lot of work has gone into this project - Well done - Shazza

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Tuesday, 23 March 2010

One of the main features of Art Nouveau was NO STRAIGHT LINES so I went with that idea.I folded some old cardstock in half then drew swirls I then cut this out and traced it on to the cream cardstock.I cut out the old photo placed it on a doiley,surrounded it with flowers,embellishments and here you are....it is different!

Julene Matthews

You really captured the feel of ARt Nouveau feel Julene, your right there were no straight lines......you've done a great job. Who is the cut out pic of? Well done - Shazza!

Wow! thanks to your entry Julene I will be adding a runner up prize :)

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Sunday, 21 March 2010

HERE IS MY TAKE FOR MARCH CHALLENGE- AND THIS TIME I DID SOME ALTERED ITEM- IT'S A FRAME YOU USE TO CROSS STITCH,SO HERE IT IS- LOTS OF FLOWERS, SILUETTE ALSO DON'T LIKE TO DO SO- BUT FOR THE CHALLENGENOT SO SURE ABOUT THE STYLE- BUT IT BLINGS, ROUND, GIRLY AND PRETTY FITS

THANKS FOR LOOKING - IRIT SHALOM

Hi Irit,Its great to see something different for the challenge, great idea of using a frame. love all the bits and pieces you have added :) this will look gorgeous hanging or displayed in your craftroom. Well done - Shazza

Hi Shazza,Although I had a plan in my head, everytime I walked past the items I had ready my mind picture developed a bit more. I'm quite pleased with this as I have the cut figurine, the halo of flowers (a great little doiley from my2angels, complete with flowers, that I painted with H2O's!) and I've tried for the pastel colours though brights is normally my mode. I based it on the advertising lithos he did with Sarah Bernhardt's name on them. Cheers, Robyn

Hi Robyn, thanks for joining in our challenge for the first time :) You've done a sweet entry, love your satin flowers, love your pastel colors, great title. Irish dancing would definately take a lot of concentration thats for sure!!!...... Well done - shazza

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Hi Shazza, I love your ARTastic site. I loved this month's art inspiration so much I completed the layout for it today. It is attached. I really enjoyed doing it. I don't often get to do such a girly layout. -Dale

Hi Dale,You've done such a great job of the challenge this month, love your 'girly' layout, its turned out beaugtifil, love the flowered pp you have used. I wore a similar style bridesmaid dress to my sister wedding :) Well done! - Shazza

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Hi Shazza!Sorry it took me couple of days!! I was quite busywith work and Law School!! But here are the LO's- Jacqueline

Hi Jacqueline, sounds like you are quite busy atm,but I'm so happy you got a chance to enter thismonths challenge. Love your idea of the flowers around the corner of the frame and also the beadshanging from the other corner, great ideas!!The pp you have used is just beautiful.Great page! - cheers Shazza

Hi Shazz,Love this month's painting so thought I would have a go, I had a photoshoot with my daughter last week so used a picture of her and my son Drew for this layout....I have taken inspiration not only from the gorgeous colours but also from the floral and flourishes that are in the painting, papers are by Bo Bunny my first time using these so they were a pleasure to work with, and with an assortment of flowers from a handmade napkin flower, tiny roses, lavendar and a big Prima bloom and touches of calico strips and a cameo it all just came together....Thanks Maria

What a beautiful take on this months challenge Maria, just love all your flowers, the Bobunny pp is divine. Great photo shoot of your daughters :) You must be pleased how this turned out, Well done - Shazza

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